Jessica Alba Bio

Jessica Marie Alba is an American actress and businesswoman. She started her television and movie appearances at age 13 with Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994), but rose to prominence at age 19 when she became the lead actress of the popular television show Dark Angel (2000-2002), which earned her an Golden Globe nomination. Honey (2003) was her biggest screen success. She soon established herself as an Hollywood actress, and has appeared in a variety of films that have made the box office a roaring success throughout her career, including Fantastic Four (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Good Luck Chuck (2007), The Eye (2008), Valentine's Day (2010), Little Fockers (2010) and Mechanic: Resurrection (2016). 9She has also worked with frequent collaborators like Robert Rodriguez. Alba was an Spectrum star in L.A. Finest, an action-packed crime drama. Alba co-founded The Honest Company (a consumer goods business that sells items for household, personal, and baby use) in 2011. Magazines like Men's Health as well as FHM and Vanity Fair included her among their lists of the most beautiful women. Jessica Marie Alba was conceived in Pomona to Catherine Louisa (nee Jensen), as well as Mark David Alba. Her mother is of Danish, Welsh, German and English heritage. Her paternal grandparents were both immigrants from California. Her younger brother is named Joshua. Gustavo Arellano (her third cousin) is her biological father. The father of her Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas, before returning to Claremont, California, when she was just nine years old. Alba described her family as "very conservative" as an old-fashioned Catholic, Latin American, Catholic family. Alba also describes herself as a liberal. When she was five, she said she was a feminist.